Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a powerful process – replacing manual, error prone and expensive operations with automated, consistent and quick provisioning of resources. In many cases, IaC is dependent on existing infrastructure, typically including a configuration management system. Chef, Puppet and SaltStack are all commonly referenced players in this market, each requiring resources to be in place and having their own difficulties in setup and maintenance.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. Amazon API Gateway is a managed service that allows developers to define the HTTP endpoints of a REST API and connect those endpoints with the corresponding backend business logic.

With the explosion of cloud services, microservices – and the increasing demands of digital transformation – enterprises are adding and removing business applications at a breakneck pace. Most large businesses are juggling an average of 788 custom business applications, and the number is growing.

API product management is a new role both start ups and enterprises alike are looking to fill in order to build and manage a new API platform. How do you identify and hire rock-stars? Given APIs are very developer-centric, you should not just aim to find the best PMs out there, but identify those passionate about APIs and helping developers. In no particular order, here is our list of API PM interview questions.

Many enterprises and SaaS companies depend on a variety of external API integrations in order to build an awesome customer experience. Some integrations may outsource certain business functionality such as handling payments or search to companies like Stripe and Algolia.

A common requirement for APIs is to rewrite the published URL to a different URL for the upstream service’s endpoint. For example, due to legacy reasons, your upstream endpoint may have a base URI like /api/oilers/. However, you want your publicly accessible API endpoint to now be named /titans/api.

iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) technology is a powerful, easy-to-use solution for managing, governing, and integrating cloud-based applications and services. Beyond this simple definition, however, the term “iPaaS” can mean a lot of different things – depending on how your organization deploys it. To help you understand the full length and breadth of this technology, we’ve compiled this complete list of iPaaS use cases.